In October and November, art historian Tanja Schult will visit several cities in the United States as part of her research on contemporary monuments. Follow her journey in her newly launched blog. Tanja Schult is assiociate professor and senior lecturer of Art history at Stockholm University. Her research focuses on Holocaust memory, on how monuments renegotiate questions of identity and participation, and how art’s efficacy can be captured through audience reception. She is now working on a project that investigates how monuments are used to express and implement key democratic values such as participation, social justice and critical discourse, and how do people respond to these manifestations in public space. During her trip to the United States, she will present her research at various universities such as CUNY and Berkeley and conduct research, the latter in particular at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, which Schult has already written about. For example on the Liminalities website: Reshaping American Identity The lecture tour and fieldwork are being carried out as part of the research project The Democratic Potential of Monuments, which is funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.